By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The results of the Election day will be narrowed down to seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

vice president Kamala Harris and former president donald trump They are the ones who have visited them the most. Together, these states are likely to obtain the Electoral College votes necessary for the winning candidate to obtain a majority of 270.

It will be a game of hopscotch to keep up with the key times in each of the states, which stretch across four different time zones.

A look at the Election Day timeline across all seven, with all listed in Eastern Standard Time:

Arizona

Polls open at 8 am in Arizonathat Joe Biden won in 2020 with 0.3%. He was only the second Democratic presidential candidate to do so in nearly 70 years. The polls will close at 9 p.m.

Arizona does not release votes until all precincts have reported or one hour after all polls close, whichever comes first.

In 2020, The Associated Press first reported Arizona results at 10:02 p.m. ET on November 3, Election Day, and declared Biden the winner at 2:51 a.m. ET on November 4.

Georgia

Polls open at 7 am in Georgia, which played a key role in 2020. Biden was the first Democrat in a White House race to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992, defeating Trump by less than a quarter of a percentage point, a margin of 11,779 votes.

Since then, Trump’s efforts to overturn those results have been at the center of the a criminal case in Fulton County. He is on hold while his legal team files a pretrial appeal to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed from office. the case and the charge was dismissed. The Georgia Court of Appeals listen to those arguments after the elections.

Polls in Georgia close at 7 p.m.

In 2020, AP first reported the Georgia results at 7:20 pm ET on November 3 and declared Biden the winner of the state at 7:58 pm ET on November 19, more than two weeks after election day. the elections.

Michigan

Polls open at 7 a.m. ET in Michigan. one of the “blue wall” states That was just barely for Trump in 2016, after nearly 30 years of voting for Democratic candidates. Biden took it back four years later. His margin was about 154,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million votes.

Michigan covers two time zones, but polls in most of the state close at 8 pm ET, and the rest at 9 pm ET.

In 2020, AP first reported the Michigan results at 8:08 pm ET on November 3 and declared Biden the winner at 5:58 pm ET on November 4.

Snowfall

Polls open at 10 a.m. ET in Nevada, the smallest electoral vote prize of the battlefields. But he has one of the best records as a presidential reference. The candidate who won Nevada has won the White House in 27 of the last 30 presidential elections.

Polls close at 10 pm ET. The state does not release results until the last person in line has voted, so there has typically been a wait between the close of voting and the first results.

In 2020, AP first reported Nevada results at 11:41 pm ET on November 3 and declared Biden the winner at 12:13 pm ET on November 7.

North Carolina

Polls open at 6:30 a.m. ET in North Carolina, which has been won by Democrats. only twice in presidential elections since 1968. But the state has remained competitive for both major parties. Trump’s 2020 victory in North Carolina, by about 1 percentage point, was his smallest margin of victory in any state.

Polls close at 7:30 pm ET.

In 2020, AP first reported the results at 7:42 pm ET on November 3 and declared Trump the winner at 3:49 pm ET on November 13.

Pennsylvania

Polls open at 7 a.m. ET in Pennsylvania. Another “blue wall” state. Biden’s 2020 margin in Pennsylvania was about 80,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million votes. This year, it’s where Harris and Trump met for the first time in their only debate in September in Philadelphia.